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Chris Everett

I was clearly inspired by your nice little Limerick with my response above to this thread. I don't figure what is ongoing that people seriously put out questions or statements like that in that header. It is just surrealistic and that obviously created my memory dump.

I don't mean offense to anybody but it was just impossible to bear. It's a weakness that I have. But I am ok with with it.

Basically : the issue is serious and a disaster in itself.

"The Sunni Awakening an Answer to U.S.'s Prayers?"

???????

What does one respond to that kind of statement?
Let me think. Nope, nothing comes up.

Well, nope, still nothing.

Heaven, there must be something,... why not?.

Oh, yes, Britney Spears finally lost custody battle.

Yes, that's it.

Researchers in the UK finally think that it is possible to evacuate a human skull to a base pressure of approx 10e-9 Torr, using low cost turbo molecular pumps.

That's another one.

"Should (former?) radicals be allowed to become part of the middle? Can those who have a history of religious intolerance and, at times, violence, find a place in Iraq's future?"

Who else are you going to find?

The United States has essentially balkanized Iraq. Iraq is an artificial country whose borders were drawn by the British (Winston Churchill) after WWI with the specific intent of including three disparate groups -- Kurds, Shia and Sunnis, whose ostensible differences would keep them from unifying against British occupation.

Just as Tito kept the artificial country of Yugoslavia from disintegrating into factions with an iron fist, just so Soddamn Insane kept Iraq from splintering by brute force and fear. Once Tito died, old wounds resurfaced. Likewise with Iraq, once Soddamn Insane was deposed.

The Croats sided with Germany during WWII and it has been said that their brutality embarassed even the Nazis. Once Yugoslavia broke up, the Serbs, who fought for the Allies and ended up with the lion's share of armaments, figured it was pay back time. The Serbs were also bitter about Kosovo, which they lost to the Muslim forces which swept up into southern Europe from the Ottoman Empire (c1400). Ancient tribal hatreds led to the bloodbath of the Balkans.

The invasion of Iraq has exacerbated old grievances and invented new. The Sunnis, who were put in positions of power by Soddamn Insane, lorded over the Shia, who now have the power and access to the oil fields. The Shia haven't done anything substantial about political reconciliation because they aren't interested in sharing power with those who had them under their thumb for many decades. The Shia have the oil. They don't need the Sunnis.

The situation is now very problematical. Number one, the Shia dominated government of Iraq is basically an American installed junta with limited legitimacy to Iraqis at large. Number two, the country is occupied by a foreign power, which the proud Iraqis deeply resent. Number three, external powers are exerting tremendous pressure. The Saudis threaten to assist the Sunnis. The Iranians are assisting the Shia. Turkey has already invaded Iraqi Kurdistan and may initiate a full scale conflict in the region.

Another critical factor is the United States building bases in former USSR satellite countries, such as Azerbaijan, in order to export Caspian Sea oil from Baku through Tblisi, to the Turkish seaport of Ceyhan. Both Russia and Iran consider the Caspian Sea region to be their sphere of influence. Russia is arming Iran and providing technological expertise for Iranian nuclear ambitions. China is a strong trading partner of Iran and it, too, needs Caspian Sea oil.

Finally, the United States gave Russia a bloody nose in Afganistan when we armed the Taliban, especially with such sophisticated weaponry as Stinger missiles. The Russians would love to repay America in kind. The Iranians haven't forgotten that it was the United States that had its democratically elected president assassinated and installed the Shah, who was no less cruel than Soddamn Insane.

Iraq is a seething cauldron of witches brew. In my humble opinion, we ain't seen nothin' yet.

It was not prayers, the surge or the Iraqi government that has bought about progress. It was about arming insurgents (Sunnis) who are now ready to "deal" with Americans knowing that we may need to leave. They made us an offer we could not refuse; they will kill A.Q. if we arm them. Armed Sunnis, with limited American endorsement, are forcing the Shia along with its puppet government to make pragmatic reajustments. Iraqis know that our open ended occupation is drawing to an end and they are not stupid. I am glad our military is making this happen in spite of our stupid political policies.

you should stick to subjects you understand, like... pornography? or whatever you used to write about. leave complicated and important topics to those who pay attention to them beyond uttering 'gee-whiz' at some new york times article.

Polls say 70 percent of Iraqis want Americans to leave, 50 percent want us killed, and almost none of Bush's political benchmarks from one year ago have been met whatever "success" the troop escalation has enjoyed. The insurgents -- a motly array of Muslim fanatics and Iraqi nationalists -- may be lying low but George W. Bush's calamitous intervention has achieved one thing: the near extirpation and destruction of a Christian community that had endured 2000 years in Mesopotamia. Was that God's will? Did God impel Bush into Iraq to sow havoc that destroys Christians?

Surrender me poor radical "Al Taqiah" Super Stupid Stitioius folk!

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I'm confused. Are we abandoning majority rule, peace, justice, or some combination of these? Maybe we're arming all sides in the hopes that the Sunnis and Shi'ites will kill each other? It's working so far.

What do I think?
I think quoting a US general about Iraq who is actively commanding troops in Iraq is essentially accepting military propaganda as unquestionable truth.

US generals in Iraq have lied so many times about all kinds of things that they should be treated like partisan politicans, not GAO accountants.

America used the Shia and the Kurds against the Sunnis since the 1980s. Now, America is still playing the different groups against each other. Petraeus armed the Sunnis forces to offset the Shia forces as well as al Qaida. The relatively, integrated Iraq of 2002 has now become Balkanized. Ethnic cleansing between Sunni, Shia, Kurd, Arab, Turkmen has neared completion. Now US troops are just arming the factions. And everyone is waiting to see who is coming into office in 2008. There are still 3-5 million Iraqi refugees which America has failed to care for. The consequences of their return WILL reignite conflicts.

The Sunni insurgency has been fighting for nearly 5 years. Its waiting to see what will change after the American elections to see which path they should take. It too calculates the return of the refugees to ignite more conflict. Make no mistake, Iraqis people want American forces to leave completely, not just stay in their barracks.

What do I think?
I think quoting a US general about Iraq who is actively commanding troops in Iraq is essentially accepting military propaganda as unquestionable truth.

US generals in Iraq have lied so many times about all kinds of things that they should be treated like partisan politicans, not GAO accountants.

America used the Shia and the Kurds against the Sunnis since the 1980s. Now, America is still playing the different groups against each other. Petraeus armed the Sunnis forces to offset the Shia forces as well as al Qaida. The relatively, integrated Iraq of 2002 has now become Balkanized. Ethnic cleansing between Sunni, Shia, Kurd, Arab, Turkmen has neared completion. Now US troops are just arming the factions. And everyone is waiting to see who is coming into office in 2008. There are still 3-5 million Iraqi refugees which America has failed to care for. The consequences of their return WILL reignite conflicts.

The Sunni insurgency has been fighting for nearly 5 years. Its waiting to see what will change after the American elections to see which path they should take. It too calculates the return of the refugees to ignite more conflict. Make no mistake, Iraqis people want American forces to leave completely, not just stay in their barracks.

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Huckabee will lead the country to the wilderness, (Utah). There a giant tabernacle will be built and Mitt Romney along with all other candidates will be sacrificed to the great God of Israel.

Skip the tabernacle building. It's already been done at the expense of all American tax payers. And we're building a giant mosque for the Sunni?

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Just wait. This silly pipe dream will look just a laughable as Cheney's "last throes" comment after a few months.

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Members of the Awakening Councils or Concerned Citizens have made it clear that they are arming themselves to fight another day, keep in mind that we have always supported the Sunni in Iraq under Saddam, mean while this article is overlooking the fact that Iraq is already Balkanized with the Shia in Power and it is the real reason why violence is down along with the cessation of violence or Cease Fire by the Mahdi Army's leader Moktada Al Sadr. The Real fight or Civil War is now in the south between Al Sadr and Al Hakin, in fact the latter is calling for a Federation of States in the South that would break up the Country with the Bulk of the Oil Reserves and Power in the hands of the SHIA MULLAHS. Now notice in this article there is no mention of DEMOCRACY, it is because none exists now in IRAQ, we simply dethroned a Secular Dictator for Religious Theocrats whose lust for power was just as insatiable as SADDAM'S. The Iaqi Parliament that passed the Debathification Law is SHIA Dominated and the Mahdi Army and it Politicl Allies praised it not because it would empower the Baathist or former Baathists it is because it gives them nothing but crumbs. This arcticle is sooo ignorant to what's going on in that Country... Oh what happens to Women in that Country now? Screw Off WAPO and Right wingers.. You all are disgusting.

Wait...I'm confused (crazy huh), now we are in bed with concerned local citizen groups? What gives, do we even know who the ally/enemy is? I have a hard time believing that reformed insurgents will be looking out for our best interests. Maybe I'm way off base on this one.

The only way out of Iraq is by shifting alliances.Al Maliki and his Iranian gang should be dumped immediately.The worst mistake the US had ever made since the invasion was to ally with the Shiites whose only loyalty is to their Mullas in Iran.In fact Shiites and Iranians are the same.All Shiites in Iran,Saudi Arabia,Bahrain,Kuwait,Emirates receive their instructions and their support from their mullas in Iran.
Shiites in Iraq have ostensibly allied with US forces to gain time and to form their own militias for killing US forces.
Sunnis have always had problems with Shiites in Iraq due to their undesired allegiance to Iran.Sunnis are the elites of the country and they have run secular governments and always managed to contain their worst enemies,Al Qaeda and Iran.Our full alliance with the Sunnis in Iraq could change the whole situation and mark a real breakthrough in the Iraqi crisis.

I'm currently deployed to Camp Anaconda Iraq. There are a number of CLC checkpoints manned by former terrorists in our AO, but I think most of them just needed work and now they've got a steady pay check and they're part of the govenment rather than just outsiders. IEDs have been way down since the "Awakening" started at the end of last summer. Our area has a mix of Sunni and Shia.

When you wall off a city in sectarian enclaves with checkpoints and then boast about a decrease in violence and how the "surge" worked you have already purpertrated a lie. Then to say a law that has more loopholes and exclusions than any cheese made and boast that this is an answer to the U.S.'s prayer is to say people are even more stupid than you apparently believe they are. There were/are no prayers involved in this. There is only corrupt, power driven, greedy men, women and corporations who care not one whit for any Iraqi or American suffering. It was/is only ends and means and achieved aims.

Your readers are so negative. They hate it when something good happens! They are so blinded with hatred for President Bush, they hope that things won't work out in Iraq; without having thought through the consequences for the Iraqi people, and even for themselves.

Trippin said it.

"So what do you think dear reader?"

I think you place too much "faith" in an administration that has lied to us at every turn.

We are training and arming factions, and paying them off to play nice. That can't last forever.

There was an Old Lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.